Meeting Minutes

September 2024-2025 Meeting Minutes

 9-2024 meeting minutes 32.pdf 

 

PTA Meeting September 23, 2024 6:00PM

Nina- Welcome
● Introduction to PTA executive board

Sasha- Robert’s Rule of Law summary

  • ●  Review of June minutes

  • ●  Review of by-laws and year-end review

  • ●  Questions

  • ●  Motion to approve minutes

    o 27approved,0notapproved,1abstained Sonia- Budget review-member donations

    • ●  Snack shop

    • ●  Gift shop

    • ●  Goal to raise 90k

    • ●  Option to propose different fundraisers for the school year

● Budget proposal
o Parent: What is line-item sunshine?
o Sasha-Designated budget for teacher gifts (retirement,parenthood(pregnancy)

o Parent-What is the budget for fundraising for the kindergarten grade.
o Sasha-All grades are equitable in terms of proposed fundraising.
o Ms.Murphy-Trips and activities for each grade are included in budget.
o Sasha-PTA and parents can make suggestions to teachers on trips and activities to the teachers.
o Parent-Are there limitations, what parents pay out of pocket?
o Sasha-Depends on what is raised through the fundraisers. There is an open communication between parents and teachers, and the teachers decide what is done for each grade.
o Parent-Are grades limited to what is in the budget picture day?
o Sasha-Picture Day is 30% commission sales for the PTA, meant for PTA fundraising, etc.
o Sonia-Parents pay fee for pictures, and a portion goes toward the PTA

o Ms.Roberts-is there a $0 balance?
o Sasha-there is a balance of $1,500
o Sonia-bill is overdue, and has been partially paid
o Sasha- bank statement in the rear, June bank statement Is available in July

● Motion to approve budget
o 27approved,0notapproved,0abstained

Principal Rolan- Principal Review

  • ●  Re-introduction to Erica, parent coordinator

  • ●  School yard construction

  • ●  Update on school’s sports team (basketball, soccer

  • ●  Library grant for $1 million

  • ●  Library renovation

o Sasha- parent advocates secured funding for the library
o Parent-do we know when the library will be renovated
o PrincipalRolon-waiting on update. iReady assessment-teachers are left to make decision when to do testing, done 3 times a year to track progress.
o Parent-What sports will be available for younger children?
o PrincipalRolon-We may have activities, but it’ll look different for younger children.
o Sasha-pickleball/racquetball donations for kids. Ms.Zuckerman needs equipment- minimum of 10 paddle and balls

Ms. Robinson- motion to move meeting time.

Ms. Zuckerman- second for an earlier time Nina- Options:

  • ●  Only in person, on 3rd Monday of the month

  • ●  Option to do hybrid or virtual

    o Optiontoelectonspecialdays
    o Primarily to do virtually- 6PM every 3rd Thursday of the month

    Sasha- hybrid Thursday 6:30PM or 7:00PM
    Ms. Z – Can attendees who are online during hybrid meeting the right to vote?
    Nina- No, only in person or 100% virtual, and needs to be updated in our by-laws.
    Ms. Robinson- proposal to be completely virtual (remote), more access for teachers to join Carina- Elections are in person.
    Sasha- to vote we need a 6-parent quorum, 2 executive members present.
    Parent- Proposal to be completely in person
    Ms. Robinson- Open to same time and same day, virtually

Sasha- proposal for hybrid or virtual at 6:30PM, 3rd Thursday of the month
Ms. Z- Opposed to Thursday in person, most classrooms are used for afterschool. Mondays are

more convenient.

Sasha- By-laws should include teachers’ report. Teachers can have motion to add teacher’s report in the by-laws.

Ms. Robinson- Teachers can represent in hybrid.

Ms. Z- Can we change where the meeting is held if there’s a storm, etc.?

Nina- Yes, we’ll provide a 10-day notice.

Sasha- Motion to approve both proposals for either hybrid at 6:30PM, every 3rd Thursday of the month or virtual 6:30PM every 3rd Thursday of the month

  • ●  Hybrid- 28 approved, 0 not approved, 0 abstained

  • ●  Virtual- 7 approved, 0 not approved, 0 abstained

    o Movetovirtualifunforeseeneventswith10days’notice. Carina- Committee for each grade and events

  • ●  Volunteers for specific dates/events

  • ●  Sign-up sheets available for picture day and snack shop

  • ●  Different clipboards available for each committee

    Sasha- Closing Statement, any other questions for the new school year, for the grade committees? Thank you all for coming.

    Meeting adjourned: 7:11PM

October 2024-2025 Meeting Minutes

 10-2024 Meetin Minutes PDF.pdf 

 

Executive Board Attendees:
Co-President: Valina, Co-President: Carina, Recording Secretary: Maria, Co- Treasurer: Claudia, VP of Afterschool: Sasha Nina (co-president)- Welcome
Rolon- Principal Review

  • ●  “We had a parent meeting yesterday, our coffee and conversation meeting, which was very well attended. It was great to see a nice turnout of parents there, and some of them are even here tonight. Again, a lot of things were brought up. But one of the most important ones to take away was the reimplementation of the open house thing that we did a couple of years ago. So that's going to happen. It's going to be in the works but basically, the way it's going to work is, parents will be invited to walk the building in the morning. Pop into whatever classrooms they wish. The instruction is going to be ongoing. You can see the teachers in action. You can see the kids in action and afterwards we'll gather down here in the cafeteria for coffee and more conversation and questions, and just be on the lookout for communication to be sent out.”

  • ●  “Our school construction in the schoolyard is behind schedule. It doesn't really impact on us too much, because all the work happens at nights and weekends. The only real issue to us is that piece of the schoolyard that's closed off, it is a little bit of a hazard also, but no one's been hurt. We want to keep it that way, but they also have posted a 24-hour guard there.”

  • ●  “Our Halloween parade next week, that's going to happen on the 31st I believe, 12:45, Erica. So, the kids are going to come into the schoolyard. They're going to parade, do a lap around, grab their candy, and then we send them right back inside.”

  • ●  “I wanted to bring up something that happened with our library funding there was some confusion around that. If you remember a few weeks ago, I posted a picture with the borough President. Now, yeah, I'm sorry, a city councilman, Robert Holden, I thanked him for being instrumental in giving us this funding. So just for context, we had been speaking to the council about doing a library renovation for a few months before he'd been to the school a few times and that newsletter made its way into the hands of the borough president's office. With a complaint about me that I was thanking the wrong person. I've been in contact with the borough president's office and with the city councilman's office and as it turns out, we got 2 awards of $900,000 from each of them. So, our funding is upwards of 1.8 million dollars for this library renovation.”

  • ●  Parent: “You anticipated 9 hundred thousand, now 1.8 million, when can we expect the renovation to be completed and can ‘t it be used towards something else besides the library?”

  • ●  Rolon: “It was granted to us specifically for that project.”

    Valina - Minutes Review of September 23rd meeting

    • ●  “We plan to share the minutes. Online, or do Dojo, we'll figure out apologies for not having made that decision earlier.

    • ●  Here in person, we do have quorum for those who are hybrid. We do have Karina Suarez, and we have Maria Flores and me,

      Valina from the executive board, and we have parents as well. We do have a quorum.”

    • ●  Any questions?

    • ●  Motion to approve minutes

    o 9 approved, 0 not approved, 0 abstained

    Claudia (treasurer)- PTA financial report

    • ●  June performance review

    • ●  August performance budget

    • ●  September performance

    • ●  Valina: “If Tracy could verify. If that's where the income for the Book Fair was put in, or where it was, cause if we did

      it a second year. Now I think that should be a line item because it's not like it. It was at the last minute. Add on, last year's fundraiser wasn't like scheduled like this one was scheduled from June. I think it should be added as a line item.”

    • ●  Ms. Robinson: “I just have a question about the 5th grade expenses because it says, 5th grade dance, DJ, decorations, photo booth, food refreshments, etc. and there's $1,710 and 95 cents. Was that paid out by the PTA because last year we collected dues from each child. It was like $90 which paid for all those things.

    • ●  Sasha: “Decorations, senior breakfast was supported by PTA”

    • ●  Claudia: “I think if we look at it, we could look at the itemized spreadsheet. And if anything, you know we could but

      that was from the Pta. But what we could do. Look at the itemized item, and then I could do a revised one. If you guys must do it specifically, because I think this is just like a default. That category that they had under this 5th grade of dance could have been. So, we could, you know, if you need more detail, we could put it in there and change it up so you could see a more detail exactly what was spent”

    • ●  Tracy “motion for June budget review” 7 approved, 0 not approved, 0 abstained

    • ●  Valina “motion for motion for August budget review” 6 approved, 0 not approved, 0 abstain

    • ●  Valina “motion for motion for September budget review” 8 approved, 0 not approved, 0 abstained

      Valina- President’s Report SLT

      o Improving attendance, any ideas to support parents
      o “That's what we're there for is to provide that as the parent support. You know what I mean. So that's why it's important

      for who's in the SLT to show up”
      o Implementing K through 13, 20-minute center-based reading

      • ▪  help prevent reading challenges

      • ▪  change in math curriculum (testing elementary school)

      o P.S.139 debate team for 4th and 5th grade -communication building, health disagreements
      o Safety- coaching for kids to avoid fractures during lunch, after-school events need to stay in designated areas and every

      child needs to be accompanied by an adult.
      o Bookfair fundraising total sales: $7,626.93, earned $1758.36 for school.

      Ms. Robinson- Teacher’s update
      o Most classes are done with there I ready testing, all classes will be finished by next week.
      o That the information can be shared at parent-teacher conferences on November 7th, also it is a student non-attendance

      day.
      o School wellness has been working and planning our 1st school-wide activity to show our colors.
      o The classes are also making scarecrows to decorate the hallways where they're going to trace several children in the

      classroom and then decorate them.
      o I can speak for all the enrichment classes that have completed our 1st unit in New York City's The city has 3 more

      climate action days throughout the school year, which we will also be doing units on
      o Valina- Bylaws need to be updated
      o PTA meetings will be held on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:00PM.
      o “Do we want to do a survey? Because whoever voted with the it just says it: if I can make that information, but of

      course, majority. So, I'm all about whatever is good for most people”
      o Hokim: sub-committee of parents and teachers (2&2) to craft survey
      o Nina- “move forward with survey committee reports, 5th grade committee work in progress. Suggest a committee in

      DEI
      o New business- Title 1 Funding o meeting time remains the same

      Kather Zapata (The director of education)- “So I am the Director of Education to Queensborough, President Donovan Richards. And I'm also a nearby resident. Ps. 139. So, it's so great to hear all the amazing things that the school is doing. I'm very excited about that debate team as well as a second English language learner. I know that'd be very important for our families, and I'm very excited to see, you know, the outcome and possibilities that our students have with that opportunity. So, as director of education, I support the borough President and advise him with anything education related as well as supporting our 400 schools. Our borough president does provide capital grants, which is called a resolution, and he does yearly applications and supports principals in applying for different resolution projects when it comes to capital improvements in their building. So, our director's budget couldn't make it tonight. But we do want to acknowledge that Ps. 1, 39 did receive 900,000 from us because of the parent advocacy and the community advocacy we've heard around the last year or so. So. Kudos to you all now there is a bit of oversight when working with your school leadership to clarify more information on. You know how our funding will work, and whether it will be used for the project that we originally allocated for or invested in the infrastructure of your school. We know that there's some other funding that came about. But so, we're working on the nuance of that, and we'll have more to come in the coming weeks or so. But if you have any further questions for me, I will leave my email. I'll stick around for a couple of minutes as well, but very excited to be here to meet all of you, and please always feel free to reach out. We're more than happy to attend one of your events, to have the students of Ps. 139 come, visit Borough Hall and to talk if there's any nuance issues that respective parents have and if our office could be of support. We have so many amazing opportunities, not only for parents, but for community members. We have a constituent services department, and I'm more than happy to refer you all. I will leave my email here in the chat box. But thank you all so much for having me.

      o Valina- Well, it came up when the principal did his report about the 2 $900,000 grants that we received. If there is anything we can move money around to use for something else. And initially the answer he did say, no, but I know that I imagine it has to be with approval from whoever applies for the grant.

      o Katherine Zapata: “Well, I want to be clear. This is a bit different, right? This is money from the borough President that he allocated respectively for your school. So the project we procured that we originally procured. You know it could be used for that, but it would have to be another capital investment. But that's a larger conversation that we have to have with your school leadership. And would ultimately be you know, a deciding factor internally, and then my director Budget can speak more of if we want to have him talk more about that in the future. But that's more of an internal conversation, for sure.”

      o Sasha- “Also the Parent Advisory Board, which is something that you post every month and then the Community Board 6. But we do invite parents to join that parent Advisory Board. We work closely with the borough president's

      office. Community Board 6. They're on there, but it's great It’s a great avenue. Once we meet other like-minded parents that are truly, truly doing the advocacy that they need for their schools and have always been a great support.”

      o Katherine Zapata: “Thank you all. I see Carla has a question. What are the projects that it's being used for? So, the current project is for a media center in a library.”

      Sasha- “Yes, so title one funding is for parents. We do receive money from the Federal Government for title one there is a meeting that does need to take place. These are parents, and families that do fall in those categories of doubled up or low income. We do get Federal dollars. So, there is going to be a meeting that's going to take place. That demonstrates how those Federal dollars will be allocated for the families in need. It's an additional resource for them to understand what's available to them, because I think you know, coming to this country and a lot of parents don't know where to go, what I need, what I'm entitled to. What are the resources? So, title one funding we've been on the list for the past 2 years. And so, what we're trying to finally get is Title 1 committee. It's apart from the PTA and the committee is made up of 2 parents who can hold the committee. The meetings are quarterly, and what we do is ensure that parent engagement for families to get connected with those resources and the avenues to be able to do that. So, we are waiting for when that meeting is going to take place. I don't have a date, but I know that he said that he was working with Chancellors. We'll get a 10-day notice. You do not need to be Title 1 I want to attend the meeting. I encourage all parents to still attend, because you can be able to advocate for a family, or that's in your child's class. This is available to you, reach out to so and so and so. This is just, you know, more knowledge, more power.

      Valina-

      • ●  Picture Day 11/19. Volunteers needed

      • ●  All additional items can be shared on all platforms

      • ●  Meeting Adjourned

        Meeting adjourned 7:35pm

November 2024-2025 Meeting Minutes

 11-2024 Meeting Minutes 4.pdf 

PTA Membership Meeting:11/21/2024
Executive Board Attendees
Co-Presidents: Valina and Carina
Recording Secretary: Maria
Co-Treasurers: Claudia and Jaqueline
VP of Afterschool: Sasha

VM: Hi! Welcome! The meeting has begun, 6:11 is the time. We're an event. Thank you everyone who is
on zoom and being patient. The minutes and budget were emailed. I hope whoever had a chance to
review them did. First, we're going to go over a quick meeting guidance because we didn't do this last
time.
If there's a question that should be answered kind of immediately or a motion,l use the raise your hand
function, then let's put that in the chat to keep the flow of the meeting going.
But 1st let's take a minute to review the minutes. You can simply go back into your email if you're on
Zoom, they were emailed to you.
Any questions on the minutes, any questions via zoom. Put your hand up
Motion to approve the minutes.

Carina: Approve
12 approved; 0 non-approve, 0 abstained

VM: SLT Update: The principal is going to put in a proposal to lower the class sizes for 1st to 3rd grade.
That’s something that they're going to work on. We're going to review, probably the 1st week of December
as part of the SLT and push forward and hope we get it. So that'll be more teachers, more funding
specifically for that.
Currently, 4th and 5th grade, the classes aren't too big. It works better for them and moving forward.
Parent: Is that the one that there's a proposal for the deadline?

VM: We'll be filling 7 teachers and one cluster teacher, so 8 total. His proposal is to include a cluster
teacher. Hopefully, we know by January, and then we can move forward with any changes and notes.
The CEP program will be brought back for the second half of this year, the Tuesday, Thursday after
school program for the ESL children, and as well the title 3 Children doing the Saturday classes. So that'll
be something we start to hear about soon.

VM: So, the Title One meeting didn't have a high turnout. If anybody could make the time on the next
scheduled one is something that's important and mandatory, to have a chairperson. It is not, as far as I
know, a position that is as taxing as other positions that are voluntary.
Parent: Quick question. Is there a way we can push that late time for a little bit later? I know the last one
was at 4:30PM.

VM: I think it was changed for the morning. Erica sent an email.

VM: Let’s try to get more people to attend. That also includes Sonia's coming again. Availability of a PTA
and the principal must help with election. It's like a collective. If that

Sasha: The Title One money. It's probably one of the easiest and most direct ways where you could
influence. I think it's like $3,300 to $3,400. You're just coming up with a game plan and handing it to the
SLT and then the SLT does all the calls and does all the setting up.

VM: And as I've asked a million questions and not everything is clear, and from what I gather is that it's a
living, breathing thing that they're still figuring out up here.

VM: We plan for the future, probably next year, we’ll be to have that person be a part of the SLT. Which is
one of the most important positions you could hold in the school as a volunteer. So that's something else
to consider. But not this year, so you can still do it.

Sasha: If we don't fill those 2 roles, we lose the money that goes back to the State. That's $3,400 that
we're handing back to them.

Sasha: It's money that we don't have to fundraise. It's literally money the State is giving us for our kids.

VM:. Claudia's up next with the financial reports and the Budget Review.

Claudia: Started bank balance of $1,517.28 cents. During the Hispanic Heritage, there was a parent that
donated $50. You'll see that in the first line under member donations. Other fundraiser income from
Scholastic Book Fair. During October we raised $5,556.81 of just cash. Then scholastic gets their part
$3,259.80. So that leaves us with October activity, $1,888.01. On October 17th sold school spirit wear
totaled $359. Those were our income for the month of October, which brought us to 2,297.01.

Claudia: In October during our PTA meeting childcare for $75. Year to date $150. Still waiting for $75 to
be cashed from the September PTA meeting and parent booster membership which helps us to do our
taxes.

Claudia: Do you have any questions? Anyone.

Barbara Robinson: I'm sorry I have a question.

Barbara Robinson: I was trying to acquaint myself with the bylaws and everything because I want to
make sure that I'm informed. And I was reading the PTA bylaws, and it's suggested in the bylaws that you
do an audit of your finances every couple of years, and I don't know that we've had an internal audit in a
while. So, I was wondering if that was something that we could do this year.

Carina: So yes, that is one of the things that we do want to do. We do have a committee, called the Audit
Committee. That would oversee that. But that's one of the things that we're trying to accomplish. But we
need parents to come in and volunteer to help us do those things.

Barbara Robinson: Okay, so do you need me to make a motion for it. Is it just the parents? Or is it like
parents and teachers?

VM: I think it's just a motion, and it's unbiased. Someone that's not on the PTA, but it could be. Whoever
could be equal teachers and parents.

Carina: Okay, so it could be equal. Teachers and parents.

Barbara Robinson: So, if you'd like, I'll make a motion to set up a committee to do an audit because we
haven't done one in a couple of years.
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VM: take a motion to do an audit. It doesn't stop PTA business, right? No.

Sasha: We did it last year, and we did an interim audit and engineer audit to the district. So, we do it every
6 months. The next audit that's coming is in January, so I'm happy for anybody to look at it. But it is done
every 6 months.

VM: You did it in September. You shared it with us last week, but I mean it technically wouldn't be
because we did that right, as our board. So, it's not the audit. According to having people, parents, and
teachers. So that would be a question we would have to ask. Because that's different. That's like closing
the books for the year. Somebody else usually does the audit for you. Second set of eyes. She motioned
to do an audit. I'll second.

VM: In favor of doing the audit, to start the audit committee.
How many in person. 8. And then 2. 0, Barbara, okay, so just Barbara, yeah.
10 approved, 0 not-approve, 0 abstained

VM: All right. So, anyone wants to volunteer to be on the Audit committee. Anyone familiar with any? Or
can that be tabled? So, we have further information: is that something that can be tabled? Or this is
something we must do. Those are little nuances that I don't know. We need to reach out to the parents.
We don't know what it entails and Bylaws for an audit. Do you have a copy? I didn't get it. I didn't get the
binder, and I don't think it would be fair to vote.

VM: Alright, we'll have to send a survey.

Claudia: That was the end of the budget review for October.

VM: So, motion to approve. The October budget second.
15 approved, 0 not approved, 0 abstained

VM: Any updates from 5th grade?

Jacqueline: We still need volunteers. So, you don't have to be a 5th grade parent to volunteer. You just
have to have a moment to share, and that goes with anything in general.

VM: They need some volunteers. They're struggling to get a start so inspiring them well, volunteering,
showing up just like we did for Hispanic heritage. And look, we had a great turnout now. If you see a
volunteer signup sheet for that, they need something with the parents. It's a good day opportunity also to
meet other 5th graders and get a consensus as to what it is that you guys want for this 5th grade class.

Sasha: For things to come into motion, and it takes an army. So, it's a big undertaking. So as many 5th
grade parents as possible. They need help in fundraising.

VM: A 4th grade parent, too. This will be a little learning/ You'll have to be a little bit ahead of the curve.
Anything Ana has already signed up. So, Ana signed up for Krispy Kreme, they'll be selling Krispy Kreme
to all the parents.

VM: There's going to be a restaurant night, and then the proceeds are going to benefit 5th grade, as well
Krispy Kreme is also going to benefit the 5th Grade class. So even though you don't have a 5th grader,
you can help with either dining at shake shack or purchasing some of the donuts so that it can help this
3 graduating class. We must get, let's say, $200 worth of sales to get whatever percentage we're supposed
to get. So that'll be your takeout night. When she sends a flyer, it'll be shared also on Instagram. It varies
from vendor to vendor.

Parent: How does the percentage work?

VM: Well, any fundraising with another name, brand, vendor of any sort varies from vendor to vendor
anywhere from 10% to 20%.

VM: New business is available on the school's website; we have a PTA link. So, going forward with the
help of time and Erica because she updates the website, we’ll have a general place to get all your
information.

VM: Anybody who is savvy is welcomed to bring any ideas or help.

VM: I brought this up last time when we fundraise for something we're technically supposed to say, ‘hey,
we're doing a book for it to fundraise for.’

VM: I know we have cheerleading tryouts and uniforms. That'll be an expense. That is normally paid by
the PTA. If we want to do a winter festival.

Parent: Do we have a date?

VM: Yes, we have a save the date, but we want to do one December 8th
with what we have.

VM: Does somebody want to make a motion to have a winter festival and spend the scholastics money on
the winter festival.

Parent: But are we going to do a holiday shop?

VM: Yes, we do have a holiday shop. It is going to be the 15th to the 20th. The winter concert for the kids
is Monday the 16th

VM: So, we're going to open the holiday shop then, and we're going to pick at least 2 lunchtime days to
do it for the big kids and for the little kids. We must do logistics, scheduling stuff like that. We're going to
open concessions, Miss Hookham said that she will check with Donnie to have the kids leave at the
kindergarten exit. So, we have concessions, and we can set up and do it nicely for the winter concert. And
then during the PTA meetings.

Sasha: we're going to do it as well. We're also going to be doing a fundraiser for throw blankets with the
school logo. We're going to be filling that, and the proceeds will be to help school. The school sports
team. Whether that's cheerleading or anything else. We're going to be sending that soon. We've got
samples here, as far as the design. That's the stage that we're in right now. Thereafter we'll deploy it. We
get a 50% margin so just want to let you guys know we do make a profit

Sasha: And it is important that we at least sell a minimum of 100 blankets, which is doable. We have 600
kids here in the school, and that proceeds. If we make the $1,700 that we're proposing by selling only 100
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blankets, we could obviously sell more. That will help fund the uniforms that the cheerleaders need and
anything else for any of the sports teams up and coming. So, we're looking forward to your support.

VM: A 50% margin is fantastic. Sasha knows for sure. What's the cost of the blanket going to be? It's
going to cost $30. We're going to be selling the pro blankets for 30 bucks.

Parent: I have a question, what we should spend the money on like winter.

Parent: Is there a way we can develop a Google form and list things that we have done in the past to see
where the interest is as a parent.

VM: Absolutely. So, then we can decide whoever wants to participate and narrow down where you want
to split the funds, and if we can include on that list, like student of the month, if we can have our own thing
to recognize kids from every grade. Wwe can work collaboratively with the teachers to get a list of
candidates, students in each grade, and maybe create our own categories and make a little ceremony. Is
that not the same as the Soar awards The Soar award is once a year it is by grade

VM: First motion is to make a Google form listing a few ways we can spend fundraising funds.

VM: Does anybody second that motion that she made? Second by Melissa. Anybody? Yes.
15 agreed, 0 not agreed,0 abstained

VM: Any to second the motion for student of the month, per grade, hosted by the PTA sponsored by the
PTA on a monthly basis. But just in general that we're going to do a student of the month.

Parent: I second that.

VM: Everyone in favor for student of the month, we'll decide the logistics. But I think it's a fabulous idea
that they want awards.
17 approved, 1 not approved, 0 abstained

VM: Student of the month, and moving forward. Yes, any other business.

VM: We're also doing it for the 5th grade committee. Oh, yes, the winter concert. So, during the winter
concert we will have the holiday shop open, which you can pay cash or card. They have an app. Also, a
bake sale so bring your money. That's cash only.

VM: if you want to also donate individually wrapped gifts? I know they're first going to prioritize the 5th
grade parents.

Parent: Gummies will be fine.

VM: Yes, pastries, etc.

Parent: So, you know, I'm biased because I'm in kindergarten. I want to know how we do the same kind of
fundraising?

Maria: Senior expenses and activities can be expensive. So that's why there's a major focus on it. So,
they do have a graduation and senior trip that is mostly paid by the PTA.
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Parent: So, does anything get offset by the parents?

VM: And it does get costly. So, you know, whatever fundraising we should do to minimize that cost for
parents down for the focus on that. But I mean, if there are suggestions for any kindergarten. We're
always open to that.

Sasha: We leave it to teachers.. And you mentioned that in the last meeting, and how they want to spend
it. Obviously, it's up to you guys, parents. This forum is here to speak, we’re able to fundraise if we want
to do something else. And it costs more. Then parents will send them their money for the great activities.
We use the snapshot money to be able to fund and donate all those great activities.

Sasha: We want to start deploying snackshop. That was another thing that we want to deploy in
December. So, we'll start picking that up. But the snackshop funds all the grades equally so no grade is
left out, there's not that bias between kindergarten, 5th grade, all grades, I have 2nd and 3rd graders.

Parent: Parents have to offset that around the grade, right?

Sasha: Yes, which is where the fundraising comes in.

Parent: Where are you going to get the stuff for the bake sale? Do we have to buy it?

VM: If anybody wants to donate you go to Costco. We'll accept any donations, so. like the box of chips
and stuff like that.

Parent: Can we donate chocolate ice cream?

Sasha:No. We only sell popsicles because of the Nut Allergy. Anything chocolate we try to avoid because
of the nuts. We'll sell it for $2.

Sasha: If you're going to donate ice cream do it on the day of the event due to storage

Parent: How much is it?

VM: Maybe like 50 cents a dollar, or whatever you can buy, like a big stack of it

Sasha: I went to this event this Saturday. In with the family. Empowerment committee. They're the ones
who really push for advocating us knowing our resources. There is an event this Saturday as well with the
USB. To understand what the school budget is, as a parent. There's free childcare, and food. We got
resources for parents..We will be working with the school nurse to do a workshop for parents. Help center
that you guys can go for free whether you have insurance or not. We learned about free trips for our
teachers. To go to. Signed up for workshops. Working to learn the phonics and to teach them. I've built a
good rapport with Christina Melendez and Chanel Lebron.

VM: Any other business? I think we can conclude and close the meeting? Thank you, guys. It was a great
turnout once again.

Meeting adjourned at 7:02PM